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Ladies: If you’re seeking relationship advice, why not take it from a high school girls basketball coach, student counselor AND strip-club security guard who writes of his experience with a cheating girlfriend, “From that moment forward, I vowed to never be put in that situation, and to mind-f— every woman I could”?

This is reportedly one of the gems from “It’s Your Fault,” a self-published advice book for women — yes, for women — written by Bryan Craig, girls basketball coach at Rich Central High School in Olympia Fields, Ill., a south Chicago suburb. It’s a 60-page tomelet, available for $3 as an ebook and $12 in paper form, that, as the SouthownStar (Tinley Park, Ill.,) puts it, “describes in graphic detail his opinion on the vaginal differences between women of different races and says, ‘the easiest kill for a man is through the young lady with low self-esteem.’” Are we sure this book wasn’t actually written by notable Olympia Fields resident/creepR. Kelly?

As the SouthtownStar reports it, Craig (who would not comment to the paper) writes hard only because he loves. (His book was edited by a teacher at the school, by the way.)

Craig cites his experience at Rich Central in the book’s foreword, writing that he has spent most of his life “surrounded by women.”

“I coach girls basketball, work in an office where I am the only male counselor, and am responsible for roughly 425 high school students a year, about half of whom are females,” Craig writes. “Suffice it to say, I have spent a considerable amount of time around, and with, the fairer sex.”

Whether it was working as a mental health counselor at Mount Sinai Health Center in Chicago or with the Illinois Department of Children Family Services, he repeatedly told women they could control their relationships, Craig wrote. The point of the book, Craig wrote, is to give women a “road map to having the upper hand in a relationship with a man.”

Craig wrote about his side gig doing security at “a very popular gentlemen’s club in Chicago.” Working there, he wrote, allows him to let off steam, manage anger and irritation, and “be nicer to my wife.”

I’m going to try that with my wife (who tipped me to this article). “Hey, honey, I’m going to the strip club to let off a little steam. You know, because of how nice it makes me.”

The newspaper reports that the superintendent says the school doesn’t condone the book, though it respects his “constitutional right to free speech.” But “we are monitoring it so this doesn’t create a situation at the school.” The school board president, however, “blasted the book and said the matter is under investigation .”(Craig is been put on leave pending a review.)

Craig has already run into some trouble at Rich Central. During the 2011-12, the Illinois High School Association, which oversees high school sports in the state, stripped the team of 18 wins because of the presence of an ineligible player. At the time, he blamed the (male) athletic director for screwing up transfer paperwork.

You might ask me, as the father of an eighth-grade girls basketball player, would I want a vagina-reviewing, strip club-steam-releasing, graphic-advice-book-writing man coaching my daughter? And I would answer: No. I wouldn’t even want him around my sons. If this coach gets the stiff-arm from his school, it’s not merely because of what he said. Like Todd Akin, the problem is with the feelings behind those words, and what they say about his lack of respect of — despite his professed respect for — girls and women.

Update, Sept. 1: The Chicago Sun-Times and the SouthtownStar report Craig has quit as coach. His career as a dirtier Steve Harvey is still active.

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